[Hidden-tech] Security and coverage for shared WiFi

[Shel Horowitz]

You've gotten lots of good tech help. I look at the whole thing from a
different angle. If the in-law apartment is legal and compliant with the
town zoning, you might want to challenge their claim that it's a
single-family, show the authorization (e.g., building permit) for the
apartment conversion, and say that these are two separate households.


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On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Duane Dale <duane.dale at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear H-Techers:
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> In advance, forgive me if these are naive questions or have been addressed
> previously.
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> Consider this scenario:
> * A homeowner has a "mother-in-law apartment" which is rented to tenants.
>    Imagine that these parties don't know each other well.
> * The chosen internet option is Comcast.
> * A Comcast-provided cable modem-wireless router is the default option.
> * Because it's nominally a single-family house, Comcast says it's
> prohibited from providing two separate accounts.
> * Comcast says it could (for an additional fee, of course) install two
> separate cable modem-routers on the same account.
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> The security question:
> * If the two parties share one WiFi account, is there a security risk?
>   (Assume, of course, that banking and other sensitive use is with https
> sites.)
> * If there is a security risk, how does it compare to risks at an airport?
>     ... in an apartment building (without shared WiFi access)?
>      ...drive-by "listening" to WiFi activity.
> * Would the second Comcast WiFi "box" reduce security risks?
> * Would hard-wiring a third-party wireless router into a single Comcast
> box provide a separate log-in? ...and would that reduce security risks?
>
> The coverage question:
> If the house is large enough to have coverage issues (or has out-buildings
> where coverage is weak)...
> * Is there a WiFi Extender device that anyone would recommend?
> * Would hard-wiring a third-party wireless router into the Comcast box --
> with a long Cat5 cable to take that second box into the weaker zone -- help?
>
> Thanks!
> Duane Dale
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